Chicken-house



(No Model.)

B. BENTLEY.

CHICKEN HOUSE.

No. 336,379. Patented Feb. 16, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD BENTLEY, OF CORNIXG, IOWVA.

CHlCKEN-HOUSE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,379, dated February16. 1886.

Application filed August 21, 1885.

To (1. whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD BENTLEY, a

- citizen of the United States, residing at Corning, in the county ofAdams and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement inChicken-Houses, of which the following is a description.

The object of thisinvention is to give brooding hens and their chickensplenty of air and lightin the day-time, and to protect them fromravenous animals at night and from storms at short notice any time.

To this end the invention consists in the construction and combinationsof parts forminga chicken-house, hereinafter described and claimed,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is afront elevation of my invention with the house open and the coop drawnout. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a detail view inthe region of the hook supporting the track.

A represents the house, having double doors B, to open outward. Thefloor Oof the house is extended from the end thereof, to serve as a basefor the post D, which supports one end of a rail, E, the other beingsecured within the farther end of the house.

F is the coop, having a floor, G, a roof, H, end boards, J, and as manypartitions K as will divide the coop into compartments of suitable size,each to contain a hen and her brood. The sides of these compartments arepartly inclosed by fixed vertical slots L, be tween which the chickensmay pass, but close enough together to restrain the hen, and eachcompartment is provided at each side with one slat, N, fitted to slidevertically, to serve as a door through which the hen may enter or thecompartment may be cleaned. At each end of the coop a hanger, M, isfixed projecting upward and provided with a V-shaped roller, 0, to runin a groove along the upper side of the rail E, the hangers being enoughto one side of the center of the coop to hold the rollers directly overthe central line of the coop, whereby the coop will hang vertically.

P P represent side boards hinged at their lower edges to the coop, toclose its sides at night to prevent the chickens from getting out. Theseside boards may be turned down, serving as tables on which the hens maybe Serial No. 175,002. (No model.)

fed, also serving as gang-planks on which the chickens may travel to andfrom the coops.

Q represents hook-ended braces, which may be attached to the coop inwindy weather to keep the coop from swinging on its hangings.

R is a hanger depending from the house at the doorway, to support themiddle of the rail E. This hanger bends off to one side to avoid theroller, and is consequently hook-shaped.

The proportions of this house and coop may be such as to contain one ora dozen compartments, and the compartments may be adapted to hens,turkeys, and other fowls. On the approach of a storm or at night eachhen will gather her own brood. Then the sides should be closed andfastened by the hooks S, the coop be run into the house, and the doorsbe closed. One of the house-doors is notched to pass the rail E. Thusthe hens and their broods will be safely sheltered from the elements andfrom predatory animals.

The whole device may be made large enough to shelter a dozen broods, andyet be so light that two persons may easily pick it up and carry it. Insome cases the post D might be fixed in the ground and the extendedfloor be dispensed with.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination. of a house having a doorway, a post in front of thedoorway about the length of the house therefrom, a rail extending fromthe post through the doorway to the farther end of the house, and a coophung to travel on the rail, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of'a house, double doors hung thereto, a railsupported within the house and extending out at the doorway, a supportfor the outer end of the rail, and a coop hung to travel on the rail,one of the doors being notched to pass the rail in closing,substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination of a house, a floor thereof extending beyond its enda distance nearly equal to the length of the house, a post secured uponthe outer end of the said floor, a rail supported at one end upon thepost and at the other end within the house, and a coop hung to travel onthe rail, substantially as shown and described.

4. The combination of a house having a doorway, a rail secured at oneend within the a support for the outer end of the rail, of a 10 houseand passing out at the doorway, a coop chicken coop suspended therefrom,and hungupon the rail by hangers passing up at I hooked braces Q, forengaging the coop to hold one side thereof, rollers journaled upon the iit steady on the rail, substantially as herein hangers to roll on therail, and a hook hung shown and described.

to the house over the doorway, its hooking RICHARD BENTLEY.

end engaging and supporting the said rail, l \Vitnesses: substantiallyas shown and described. ED. L. OUNDY,

5. Thecombination, withahouse, arai],and T. D. HEDRIOK.

